Before committing $2 billion to Mr. Kushner’s fledgling firm, officials at a fund led by the Saudi crown prince questioned taking such a big risk.

Prince Mohammed bin Zayed expanded the U.A.E.’s power by following America’s lead. He now has an increasingly bellicose agenda of his own. And President Trump seems to be following him.

The threat from domestic terrorism is rising, but, with Republicans decrying the “deep state,” the F.B.I. is cautious about investigating far-right groups. Vigilantes are leaping into the fray.

Two Proud Boys accused of leading a mob to Congress followed a bloody path to get there. Law enforcement did little to stop them.

Alliance Defending Freedom has won fifteen Supreme Court cases. Now it wants religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws—and is going after trans rights.

The connections nurtured by the financier Tom Barrack look to have paid off handsomely for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — and for his business.

The two presidents drove out 10,000 Cuban doctors and nurses. They defunded the region’s leading health agency. They wrongly pushed hydroxychloroquine as a cure.

The Pulitzer board makes The Times a winner in three categories. The Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica take a major prize at a time when local journalism is in crisis.

A 1992 study claims that officers who show weakness are more likely to be killed. Law-enforcement culture has never recovered.

Before committing $2 billion to Mr. Kushner’s fledgling firm, officials at a fund led by the Saudi crown prince questioned taking such a big risk.

Actions taken by paramilitary groups in Michigan last year, emboldened by President Donald J. Trump, signaled a profound shift in Republican politics and a national crisis in the making.

Allies of President Vladimir Putin, arriving on private jets and yachts, are still welcome in the U.A.E., which has yet to condemn the Ukraine invasion or enforce sanctions.

Speaking 25 years after the Oslo peace accords were signed, Jared Kushner said President Trump had stripped away the “false realities” that surround Middle East peacemaking.

Officers using deadly force rely on a legal doctrine set forth decades ago. Now, the movement launched by the death of George Floyd is trying to change that standard.

As Turkish forces cross into Kurdish areas of northern Syria, the orders from Washington to U.S. troops are simple: Stand back. Let the Kurds fight for themselves.

The killing of Jamal Khashoggi has focused attention on two aides to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who have played key roles in his aggressive acts.

Terrorism and shifting politics have left mainstream Muslims feeling wary in one of the Western cities that has been most open to them.

For centuries after the expulsion from Spain, Morocco’s Sephardic Jewish women sang of love, loss and identity. Now, they’re almost all gone.

The country has developed a lucrative specialty: cyberattacks for hire.

It wasn’t just the Fed or the stimulus. The rise in savings among white-collar workers created a tide lifting nearly all financial assets.

President Trump quipped, “Where’s my favorite dictator?” while awaiting a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi during last month’s Group of Seven summit. The comment drew attention to...

Prince Mohammed bin Zayed expanded the U.A.E.’s power by following America’s lead. He now has an increasingly bellicose agenda of his own. And President Trump seems to be following him.

Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East

Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East

How a photograph of a young man cradling his dying friend sent me on a journey across India.

عندما أقام وليّ العهد السعودي محمّد بن سلمان مأدبة عشاء هذا الربيع دُعِي إليها عددٌ من الزعماء العرب، كان من بين الحضور، إلى جانب هذا الحشد من الملوك والأمراء والرؤساء، شخصان لا يملكان من المؤهلات...

The popular uprisings of 2011 mostly failed, but they gave the region a taste for democracy that continues to whet an appetite for change.

Two Proud Boys accused of leading a mob to Congress followed a bloody path to get there. Law enforcement did little to stop them.

David D. Kirkpatrick was detained at Cairo airport and sent back to London in an escalation of a news media crackdown under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

The media was happy to sing his praises in the spring, when the crown prince met with Hollywood stars and Silicon Valley titans. Then came the Jamal Khashoggi story.

Officers, trained to presume danger, have reacted with outsize aggression. For hundreds of unarmed drivers, the consequences have been fatal.

Rumors destroyed Hazim Nada’s company. Then hackers handed him terabytes of files exposing a covert campaign against him—and the culprit wasn’t a rival but an entire country.

The threat from domestic terrorism is rising, but, with Republicans decrying the “deep state,” the F.B.I. is cautious about investigating far-right groups. Vigilantes are leaping into the fray.

In taking on the Saudis over Jamal Khashoggi’s death, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may be fighting a larger, geopolitical battle.